This study examined the provision and quality of care for elderly people in long-stay institutions. The collection includes: visit reports from a range of local authority and private homes, nursing homes, general and psychiatric hospitals; and notes based on interviews carried out with nursing and administrative staff in three case study hospitals. A draft report based on the research was prepared but not finalised or published. Old age; elderly people; residential care of the elderly; nursing homes; old people's homes; care of dependants; retirement; hospitals; hospital patients; nursing; nursing staff; hospital administrators; psychiatric treatment; welfare services; welfare service administration; social isolation; loneliness